How to become an Independent Family Support Worker
Family support is an integral part of what we do at WillisPalmer as it enables families to stay together where it is safe to do so. Not only is this better for the children and families who get support in their parenting skills and communication and enables them to deal more effectively with short-term and [...]
Sixty Second Interview with Andrea Goddard
Independent Social Worker Andrea Goddard has more than 20 years’ experience working with vulnerable children and families including 12 years frontline child protection work.
What three words best describe you?
Thoughtful, disciplined, snowflake.
If you were stuck on a desert island, and could take one person and one object, who and what would they be?
My Kevin, with [...]
UN Rights of the Child contravened in Child Q case, warns psychologists
The actions towards Child Q, a Black female child of secondary school age who was strip searched by female police officers from the Metropolitan Police Service, directly contravened the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child sections 3.1 and 3.2, psychologists have warned.
Child Q’s intimate body parts were exposed when she was strip searched [...]
Half of secondary school teachers ill equipped to teach sex education
Almost a half of secondary school teachers do not feel confident teaching sex and relationships education, according to a joint survey by the NSPCC and education union NASUWT.
The majority of teachers (86%) feel they need more resources and training in this subject area and 57% think the level of support from the government has [...]
Report reveals rise in levels of unhappiness in schools
Young people are on average less happy with their life as a whole, with school, friends and how they look than 10 years ago, according to The Good Childhood Report published by The Children’s Society.
More children (aged 10 to 17) are unhappy with school than with the other aspects of life they are asked [...]
Special Report: Cost-of-living impact on social workers, foster carers and service users
More children will go into care as a result of the cost-of-living crisis, social workers are predicting.
A survey of social workers carried out by BASW and SWU found that social workers overwhelmingly predicted vulnerable adults could die this winter, that more children would go into care, there will be a spike in domestic violence, [...]
